Barton Lee Hazlewood (July 9, 1929 – August 4, 2007) was an American countr… Read Full Bio ↴Barton Lee Hazlewood (July 9, 1929 – August 4, 2007) was an American country and pop singer, songwriter, and record producer, most widely known for his work with guitarist Duane Eddy during the late 1950s and singer Nancy Sinatra in the 1960s and 1970s. Hazlewood had a distinctive baritone voice that added a resonance to his music. His collaborations with Nancy Sinatra as well as his solo output in the late 1960s and early 1970s have been praised as an essential contribution to a sound often described as "cowboy psychedelia" or "saccharine underground".
Barton Lee Hazlewood was born in Mannford, Oklahoma on July 9, 1929. The son of an oil worker father, Hazlewood spent most of his youth living between Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, and Louisiana. His paternal grandmother was Native American. He grew up listening to pop and bluegrass music. Lee spent his teenage years in Port Neches, Texas, where he was exposed to a rich Gulf Coast music tradition. He studied for a medical degree at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He served with the United States Army during the Korean War.
Hazlewood was initially known as a producer and songwriter, for artists including Duane Eddy, Dean Martin, and Dino, Desi & Billy. Following discharge from the military in 1953, Hazlewood worked as a disc jockey in Coolidge, Arizona and two years later, moved to KRUX radio in Phoenix. During that time, he was already writing songs and formed his own record label, Viv. His first hit single as a producer and songwriter was "The Fool", recorded by rockabilly artist Sanford Clark in 1956. He partnered with pioneering rock guitarist Duane Eddy, producing and co-writing a string of hit instrumental records. "Rebel Rouser", released in 1958 was a hit in the US and in the UK; Eddy would eventually have another 14 US hits, including "Peter Gunn", "Boss Guitar", "Forty Miles of Bad Road", "Shazam!" and "(Dance With The) Guitar Man".
Hazlewood is perhaps best known for having written and produced the 1966 Nancy Sinatra U.S./UK No. 1 hit, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" and "Summer Wine", the latter first recorded with Suzi Jane Hokom in 1966. His collaboration with Nancy Sinatra began when Frank Sinatra asked Lee to help boost his daughter's career. When recording These Boots are Made for Walkin', Hazlewood is said to have made this suggestion to Nancy, "You can’t sing like Nancy Nice Lady any more. You have to sing for the truckers". She later described him as "part Henry Higgins and part Sigmund Freud".
Hazlewood also wrote "How Does That Grab Ya, Darlin'", "Friday's Child", "So Long, Babe, "Sugar Town" and many others for Sinatra. Among his most well-known vocal performances is "Some Velvet Morning", a 1967 duet with Nancy Sinatra. He performed that song along with "Jackson" on her 1967 television special Movin' With Nancy. Early in 1967, Lee also produced the number 1 hit song for Frank & Nancy Sinatra "Somethin' Stupid". The pair became the only father-daughter duo to top the Hot 100 with what DJs dubbed 'the incest song' because it performed as if sung by two lovers. The record earned a Grammy Award nomination for Record of the Year and remains the only father-daughter duet to hit No. 1 in the U.S. Jimmy Bowen was listed as co-producer on that record but wasn't there at the time. Hazlewood just gave him credit as per a previous agreement with Jimmy.
Hazlewood also wrote the theme song "The Last of the Secret Agents", the theme song of the 1966 spy-spoof film of the same title. Nancy Sinatra, who had a role in the film, recorded the song for the soundtrack. For Frank Sinatra's 1967 detective movie, Tony Rome, Hazlewood also wrote the theme song which was performed by Nancy. He wrote "Houston", a 1965 US hit recorded by Dean Martin. He also produced several singles for Martin's daughter, Deana Martin, including her country hit, "Girl of the Month Club," while Deana was still a teenager. Other tunes on that project were "When He Remembers Me," "Baby I See You" and "The Bottom of My Mind," all recorded during the 1960s. Hazlewood also wrote "This Town", a song that was recorded by Frank Sinatra that appeared on his 1968 album Greatest Hits and is the basis for Paul Shaffer's "Small Town News" segment theme on the Late Show with David Letterman.
In 1967, Hazlewood started his own record label, LHI Records (Lee Hazlewood Industries). Though it did not receive much attention at the time, the International Submarine Band, led by a then-unknown Gram Parsons, signed with LHI in 1967 and released their one and only album, Safe at Home. Shortly after the album was recorded, Parsons left the band to join The Byrds, contributing several songs to their 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo. The contract Parsons had signed with Hazlewood's LHI caused a great deal of trouble for himself and The Byrds, and in the court settlement most of Parsons' material on Sweetheart of the Rodeo had the vocals removed and re-recorded by Roger McGuinn. This situation led to Parsons' departure from the Byrds not long after the album's release. As LHI producer and Hazlewood's ex-girlfriend Suzi Jane Hokom later noted, Hazlewood was a performer and not a businessman, and his lack of business acumen figured greatly in the label's 1971 demise.
In the 1970s Hazlewood moved to Stockholm, Sweden, where he wrote and produced the one-hour television show Cowboy in Sweden together with friend and Director Torbjörn Axelman, which also later emerged as an album. During ten years in Sweden he made records and films with Axelman. According to a retrospective of his career, the move to Europe was motivated by his "tax problems", concern that his son might be drafted for the Vietnam war and the fact that his record label "LHI was dying anyway", so Sweden looked like the perfect escape route. Decades later, his friend Suzi Jane Hokom made this comment about the years in Europe. "I think he knew he'd burned his bridges in LA and here was a brand new world where he had a built-in fanclub ... He really needed a new start".
Lee was semi-retired from the music business from the late 1970s and all through the 1980s. However, his own output also achieved a cult status in the underground rock scene, with songs recorded by artists such as Rowland S. Howard, Kim Salmon and the Surrealists, Miles Kane, Vanilla Fudge, Spell, Lydia Lunch, Primal Scream, Entombed, Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Hooverphonic, KMFDM, Anita Lane, Megadeth, The Ukiah Drag, Beck, Baustelle, the Tubes, Thin White Rope, Yonatan Gat, Zeena Schreck/Radio Werewolf and Slowdive.
In 2006, Hazlewood sang on Bela B.'s first solo album, Bingo, on the song "Lee Hazlewood und das erste Lied des Tages" ("Lee Hazlewood and the first song of the day"). He said that he loved producing and writing albums.
In 2007, Reprise/Rhino Handmade Records posthumously released 'STRUNG OUT ON SOMETHING NEW: THE REPRISE RECORDINGS', a set of his work at Reprise from 1964-1968 (excluding the Nancy Sinatra recordings). The 2 CD collection, totaling 55 tracks, covers three of his solo albums as well as production work for other artists, such as Duane Eddy, Sanford Clark, Jack Nitzche and Dino, Desi & Billy.
Since 2012, the Light in the Attic record label reissued many Hazlewood albums, including 400 Miles From LA: 1955-1956, which became available in September 2019.
Hazlewood died of renal cancer in Henderson, Nevada, on August 4, 2007, survived by his wife Jeane, son Mark and daughters Debbie and Samantha.
Barton Lee Hazlewood was born in Mannford, Oklahoma on July 9, 1929. The son of an oil worker father, Hazlewood spent most of his youth living between Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, and Louisiana. His paternal grandmother was Native American. He grew up listening to pop and bluegrass music. Lee spent his teenage years in Port Neches, Texas, where he was exposed to a rich Gulf Coast music tradition. He studied for a medical degree at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He served with the United States Army during the Korean War.
Hazlewood was initially known as a producer and songwriter, for artists including Duane Eddy, Dean Martin, and Dino, Desi & Billy. Following discharge from the military in 1953, Hazlewood worked as a disc jockey in Coolidge, Arizona and two years later, moved to KRUX radio in Phoenix. During that time, he was already writing songs and formed his own record label, Viv. His first hit single as a producer and songwriter was "The Fool", recorded by rockabilly artist Sanford Clark in 1956. He partnered with pioneering rock guitarist Duane Eddy, producing and co-writing a string of hit instrumental records. "Rebel Rouser", released in 1958 was a hit in the US and in the UK; Eddy would eventually have another 14 US hits, including "Peter Gunn", "Boss Guitar", "Forty Miles of Bad Road", "Shazam!" and "(Dance With The) Guitar Man".
Hazlewood is perhaps best known for having written and produced the 1966 Nancy Sinatra U.S./UK No. 1 hit, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" and "Summer Wine", the latter first recorded with Suzi Jane Hokom in 1966. His collaboration with Nancy Sinatra began when Frank Sinatra asked Lee to help boost his daughter's career. When recording These Boots are Made for Walkin', Hazlewood is said to have made this suggestion to Nancy, "You can’t sing like Nancy Nice Lady any more. You have to sing for the truckers". She later described him as "part Henry Higgins and part Sigmund Freud".
Hazlewood also wrote "How Does That Grab Ya, Darlin'", "Friday's Child", "So Long, Babe, "Sugar Town" and many others for Sinatra. Among his most well-known vocal performances is "Some Velvet Morning", a 1967 duet with Nancy Sinatra. He performed that song along with "Jackson" on her 1967 television special Movin' With Nancy. Early in 1967, Lee also produced the number 1 hit song for Frank & Nancy Sinatra "Somethin' Stupid". The pair became the only father-daughter duo to top the Hot 100 with what DJs dubbed 'the incest song' because it performed as if sung by two lovers. The record earned a Grammy Award nomination for Record of the Year and remains the only father-daughter duet to hit No. 1 in the U.S. Jimmy Bowen was listed as co-producer on that record but wasn't there at the time. Hazlewood just gave him credit as per a previous agreement with Jimmy.
Hazlewood also wrote the theme song "The Last of the Secret Agents", the theme song of the 1966 spy-spoof film of the same title. Nancy Sinatra, who had a role in the film, recorded the song for the soundtrack. For Frank Sinatra's 1967 detective movie, Tony Rome, Hazlewood also wrote the theme song which was performed by Nancy. He wrote "Houston", a 1965 US hit recorded by Dean Martin. He also produced several singles for Martin's daughter, Deana Martin, including her country hit, "Girl of the Month Club," while Deana was still a teenager. Other tunes on that project were "When He Remembers Me," "Baby I See You" and "The Bottom of My Mind," all recorded during the 1960s. Hazlewood also wrote "This Town", a song that was recorded by Frank Sinatra that appeared on his 1968 album Greatest Hits and is the basis for Paul Shaffer's "Small Town News" segment theme on the Late Show with David Letterman.
In 1967, Hazlewood started his own record label, LHI Records (Lee Hazlewood Industries). Though it did not receive much attention at the time, the International Submarine Band, led by a then-unknown Gram Parsons, signed with LHI in 1967 and released their one and only album, Safe at Home. Shortly after the album was recorded, Parsons left the band to join The Byrds, contributing several songs to their 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo. The contract Parsons had signed with Hazlewood's LHI caused a great deal of trouble for himself and The Byrds, and in the court settlement most of Parsons' material on Sweetheart of the Rodeo had the vocals removed and re-recorded by Roger McGuinn. This situation led to Parsons' departure from the Byrds not long after the album's release. As LHI producer and Hazlewood's ex-girlfriend Suzi Jane Hokom later noted, Hazlewood was a performer and not a businessman, and his lack of business acumen figured greatly in the label's 1971 demise.
In the 1970s Hazlewood moved to Stockholm, Sweden, where he wrote and produced the one-hour television show Cowboy in Sweden together with friend and Director Torbjörn Axelman, which also later emerged as an album. During ten years in Sweden he made records and films with Axelman. According to a retrospective of his career, the move to Europe was motivated by his "tax problems", concern that his son might be drafted for the Vietnam war and the fact that his record label "LHI was dying anyway", so Sweden looked like the perfect escape route. Decades later, his friend Suzi Jane Hokom made this comment about the years in Europe. "I think he knew he'd burned his bridges in LA and here was a brand new world where he had a built-in fanclub ... He really needed a new start".
Lee was semi-retired from the music business from the late 1970s and all through the 1980s. However, his own output also achieved a cult status in the underground rock scene, with songs recorded by artists such as Rowland S. Howard, Kim Salmon and the Surrealists, Miles Kane, Vanilla Fudge, Spell, Lydia Lunch, Primal Scream, Entombed, Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Hooverphonic, KMFDM, Anita Lane, Megadeth, The Ukiah Drag, Beck, Baustelle, the Tubes, Thin White Rope, Yonatan Gat, Zeena Schreck/Radio Werewolf and Slowdive.
In 2006, Hazlewood sang on Bela B.'s first solo album, Bingo, on the song "Lee Hazlewood und das erste Lied des Tages" ("Lee Hazlewood and the first song of the day"). He said that he loved producing and writing albums.
In 2007, Reprise/Rhino Handmade Records posthumously released 'STRUNG OUT ON SOMETHING NEW: THE REPRISE RECORDINGS', a set of his work at Reprise from 1964-1968 (excluding the Nancy Sinatra recordings). The 2 CD collection, totaling 55 tracks, covers three of his solo albums as well as production work for other artists, such as Duane Eddy, Sanford Clark, Jack Nitzche and Dino, Desi & Billy.
Since 2012, the Light in the Attic record label reissued many Hazlewood albums, including 400 Miles From LA: 1955-1956, which became available in September 2019.
Hazlewood died of renal cancer in Henderson, Nevada, on August 4, 2007, survived by his wife Jeane, son Mark and daughters Debbie and Samantha.
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Nancy Sinatra Lyrics
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''Bang Bang '' I was five and he was six We rode on horses…
05. These boots are made for walking 2 You keep saying you got something for me Something you call…
08. Nancy Sinatra He's never caught one spy untold He's never even caught a…
100 Years I'm not gonna say everything is okay 'Cause okay is not…
15. Storybook Children You've got your world, & I've got mine, and it's…
24- SUGAR TOWN I got some troubles, but they won't last I'm gonna lay…
99 Miles from LA Keeping my eyes on the road, I see you Keeping my…
Ain Go away from my window Leave at your own chosen speed I'm…
Ain't No Easy Way Ohhh we started out as the greatest romance of the…
Ain't No Sunshine It's easy to fall in love When you fall in love…
All by Myself I'm so unhappy What'll I do? I long for somebody who Will sy…
Another Gay Sunshine Day Welcome to our soiree Flaming hot pink bouquets New rainbow …
Are You On The Road To Loving Me Again Are you here just to pass the time of day Or…
As Tears Go By It is the evening of the day I sit and watch…
Baby Cried All Night Long My baby cried,all night long My baby cried all night long H…
Baby Please Don Come here baby, hold me close You've been gone so long I'v…
Baby Please Don't Go Come here baby, hold me close You've been gone so long I've…
Baby's Coming Back to Me Outside there's children laughing The radio plays my favorit…
Bang I was five and he was six We rode on horses…
Big Boss Man Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call? Big…
Bossman Big boss man, can′t you hear me when I call? Big…
Burnin Standing in the crowds Lost out in the street Loving the cha…
Button Up Your Overcoat Listen, big boy, Now that you got me made, Goodness,…
California Dreamin' All the leaves are brown and the sky is gray I've…
California Girls Well, East coast girls are hip I really dig those styles…
Call Me If you're feeling sad and lonely There's a service I can…
Can I Stay I have tried to make you love me I've done…
Cryin' Time Well it's cryin' time again you're gonna leave me I can…
Crying Time Well it's cryin' time again you're gonna leave me I can…
Cuando Calienta el Sol Amor estoy solo agui en la playa Es el sol quien…
Day Tripper Got a good reason For taking the easy way out Got a…
Devil In Disguise Well, I was sittin' at a bar, it was late…
Did You Ever Did you ever? Not so much, that you can know this Could…
Did You Ever? Did you ever? Not so much, that you can know this Could…
Die Another Day Welcome to our soiree Flaming hot pink bouquets New rainbow …
Do You Know the Way to San Jose La, la, la,...la, la, la La, la , la,...la, la ,…
Do You Know the Way to San Jose? La, la, la,...la, la, la La, la , la,...la, la ,…
Dolly and Hawkeye She'll be thirty two in June light And she's only known…
Don't Let Go Hear that whistle, it's ten o'clock. Don't let go, Don't let…
Don't Let Him Waste Your Time You can stay all night if you want to You can…
Don't Mean Nothing Sometimes you feel it Other times you′re bored You understoo…
down from dover I know this dress I'm wearing doesn't hide the secret I've…
Drummer Man Hush, hush, little baby, don't you cry Hush, hush, little b…
Elusive Dreams I followed you to Texas I followed you to Utah We didn't…
End of the World Why does the sun go on shining Why does the…
Feelin' Kinda Sunday (Feelin' kinda Sunday, feelin' kinda Sunday, feelin' kinda S…
Fell In Love With A Poet Fell in love with a poet And the songs he sang…
Flowers I been hearin' your concern about my happiness But all that…
For Me It's You Some people run Some people crawl Some people don't even mov…
For Once in My Life For once in my life I have someone who needs…
Friday Friday's child, hard luck is her brother Friday's child, her…
Full Metall Jacket- These Boots Are Made For Walking You keep saying you got something for me Something you call…
Get Ready I never met a girl who makes me feel the…
Good Time Girl When you find that you don't love her When all the…
Goodtime Girl When you find that you don't love her When all the…
Happy Loneliness is nothin' new I've lived with it my whole life…
Hard Hearted Hannah In old Savannah, I said Savannah, The weather there is nice…
Hello L.A. Bye Bye Birmingham I packed everything I own and I put it in…
Here We Go Again Here we go again She's back in town again I'll take her…
Highway Song You only live twice Or so it seems One life for yourself …
Home We are home, we are where we shall be forever. Trust…
Hooray for Hollywood Hooray for Hollywood That screwy, ballyhooed Hollywood Where…
Hotel California On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair Warm…
How Are Things in California How are things in California Oh, your letter didn't say Now …
How does that grab you You came by at two o'clock, You shoulda been by…
How Does That Grab You Darlin - Basti Grub Re-Edit You came by at two o'clock, you shoulda been by…
How Does That Grab You Darlin' You came by at two o'clock, You shoulda been by…
Hutchinson Jail Cold, cold, cold, cold, it's cold in the Hutchinson Jail So…
I Can't Grow Peaches on a Cherry Tree I have tried to make you love me I've done…
I gotta get gut of this town I gotta get out of this town I gotta go some…
I love them all I had all the dreams of riding carousels Now it′s up…
I Move Around I?ve seen the Golden Gate at San Francisco Bay I?ve seen…
I See The Moon Each time I look at you is like the first…
I'm Walkin' I′m walkin', yes indeed, and I′m talkin' about you and…
In My Room In my room We're at the end of the harm I sit…
In Our Time People used to bill and coo But that don't make it…
in out time People used to bill and coo But that don't make it…
In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning In the wee small hours of the morning While the whole…
Indian Summer I've never been as happy as I was that morning That morning…
It Ain Go away from my window Leave at your own chosen speed I'm…
It's For My Dad There's a man who always stood right by me Tall and…
It's Such a Pretty World Today It's such a pretty world today, look at the sunshine (Look…
Jackson We got married in a fever hotter than a pepper…
Kind Of A Woman Well, I'm a sweet smelling, truth telling, city dwelling kin…
Kinky Love Kinky love, kinky I'm mad about you Kinky love, I need…
Lady Bird I've been where the eagle flies Rode his wings 'cross autumn…
Lay Some Happiness On Me Lay some happiness on me So the brighter side you'll see No…
Let Let's fall in love Why shouldn't we fall in love? Our hear…
Let It Be Me If for each bit of gladness Someone must taste the sadness I…
Let Me Kiss You There's a place in the sun for anyone Who has the…
Let's Fall in Love Let's fall in love Why shouldn't we fall in love? Our hearts…
Lies Lies, lies, You?re telling me that you'll be true. Lies, lie…
Life's a Trippy Thing [Getting stoned on sunshine, getting high on air,] Getting …
Light My Fire You know that it would be untrue You know that…
Lightning I've told you that I'm Lightning's girl But you keep hanging…
Like i do Gone is the romance, that was so divine It's broken and…
Limehouse Blues And those weird China blues Never go away Sad, mad blues …
Lonely Again Lonely again No arms around me You told me that others b…
Love Eyes Love eyes... Baby you sure got Love eyes... Turn me on…
Machine Gun Kelly Tell ya 'bout Machine Gun Kelly He road along the outlaw…
Mama Goes Where Papa Goes Mama Goes Where Papa Goes Or Papa don't go out tonight Mama…
Maybe I'm Amazed Maybe I'm amazed at the way you love me all…
My Baby Cried All Night Long My baby cried,all night long My baby cried all night long H…
My Baby Shot Me Down I was five and he was six We rode on horses…
My Buddy Nights are long since you went away. I think about you…
My Elusive Dreams I followed you to Texas I followed you to Utah We didn't…
Nancy Sinatra He's never caught one spy untold He's never even caught a…
Nice 'n' Easy Let's take it nice and easy It's gonna be so easy For…
Nights In White Satin Nights In White Satin (Justin Hayward) Nights in white s…
Not the Lovin Tell you babe. im not the lovin' kind So you'd better…
Not the Lovin' Kind Tell you babe. im not the lovin' kind So you'd better…
Now I Have Everything You saw what others couldn't see And loved the lonely part…
Oh Lonesome Me Everybody's going out and having fun I'm just a fool for…
Oh! You Beautiful Doll Honey dear,want you near, Just turn out the lights and then…
On Broadway They say the neon lights are bright On Broadway They say…
One For My Baby Okay, and once again, here's Bette Midler {"Well, you know,…
One More Time You know I don't wanna love you but I keep…
One velvet morning Some velvet mornin' when I'm straight I'm gonna open u…
Paris Summer Lee: Walking down some cobbled street the sound of water nea…
Put Your Head On My Shoulder Put your head on my shoulder Hug me in your arms,…
Right Track, Wrong Train I'm on the right track, riding on the wrong train This…
Roadblock Hazard on the highway keeping me from you Gonna rev my…
Rockin' Rock and Roll Well, the sun is high And the moon is fine And my…
Run For Your Life Well, I?d rather see you dead, little boy Than to see…
San Fernando Valley Oh, I'm packin' my grip and I'm leavin' today 'Cause I'm…
San Francisco It only takes a tiny corner of This great big…
Sand Young woman share your fire with me My heart is cold,…
Saturday in the Park Saturday in the park I think it was the 4th of…
See the Little Children See the little children laugh and sing (laugh and sing) Fant…
Shades These shades can hide the teardrops crying But not the way…
Shot You Down I was five and he was six We rode on horses…
So Long Babe I know you're leavin' babe, Goodbye, so long. I hope someda…
So Long Baby My baby cried,all night long My baby cried all night long H…
So Long, Babe I know you're leavin' babe, Goodbye, so long. I hope someday…
Some Velvet Morning Some velvet mornin' when I'm straight I'm gonna open u…
Somethin I know I stand in line Until you think you have…
Something Something in the way he moves Attracts me like no other…
Something Stupid I know I stand in line until you think you…
Son of a Preacher Man Billy-Ray was a preacher's son And when his daddy would visi…
sorry bout that Last night I went trippin′ out with someone new Headin' stra…
Storybook Children You've got your world, & I've got mine, and it's…
Strangers In The Night Here is Nancy Sinatra to sing for all of us Strangers…
Sugar Town I got some troubles, but they won't last I'm gonna lay…
Sugartown I got some troubles, but they won't last I'm gonna lay…
Summer Wine Strawberries, cherries and an angel's kiss in spring My summ…
Summerwine Strawberries, cherries and an angel's kiss in spring My sum…
Sundown Sundown ThereÂ's no one in this world for me ThereÂ's never gonna…
Sweet Georgia Brown Sweet Georgia brown No gal made has got a shade On sweet…
The Answer To Everything (Ouh, ouh, ouh It's the answer Ouh, ouh, ouh To the quest…
The City Never Sleeps At Night Old man, young man Preacher saying amen Taking up collecti…
The City That Never Sleeps Old man, young man Preacher saying amen Taking up collection…
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